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The tailor Swift joke didn't you? God, now I need a drink...
The latest iteration of Apple's open-source programming language Swift has taken its first major step towards Linux support. The release of Swift 2.2 landed on March 21, and includes its first Linux port in the form of binaries for Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.10. As Neowin notes, now that there's a Linux build, "it won't be long …
No, they used let to mean val; it's not a modifier and it means only one thing. const is a modifier and means any of (at least, without being an expert): immutable value, don't copy this onto the stack or this method always returns the same thing. Though it's at least more coherent than the manifold meanings of static.